659.5% Average Total Return on His Picks

Beware The Manufacture of Consent (and Other Investment Lessons) [StreetAuthority]    [659.5% Average Total Return on His Picks]( Robert Rapier has a 659.5% average return on his holdings. And that’s no handful of “cherry-picked” winners… That’s a full portfolio of 40+ stocks we’ve actually recommended to our readers. With nearly a dozen triple and quadruple-digit winners — it’s clear this stock-picking system works. And now 3 more “red-hot buys” have popped up on our radar. [Click here for the 3 stocks that could start paying you up to $1,915 per month.](   Beware The Manufacture of Consent (and Other Investment Lessons) By John Persinos  Like millions of my fellow Americans, I watched President Biden’s Oval Office speech this week, in which he explained his departure from the 2024 race. Afterwards, I listened to the television pundits as they delivered their characteristically superficial analysis. Last night’s depressingly familiar TV experience reminded me of a phrase that I once heard MIT professor Noam Chomsky utter at a symposium at Boston University, when I was attending BU during the Carter era. Chomsky told this gathering of long-haired students (and this is an exact quote, taken from my yellowed notes): “The overriding goal of the corporate-owned media is to manufacture consent.” Chomsky’s brilliant turn of phrase, “manufacture consent,” has stuck with me ever since. Today’s column isn’t intended as a political opinion piece. That’s not my job. But it is my job to urge you to think for yourself as an investor. I consider politicians, even the president of the United States, to be the hired help of the financial and corporate elite. These public sector administrators come and go; the media’s coverage of politics is largely an attempt to keep the rest of us in line. Fun fact: [The richest 1% of the population own half the world’s wealth](. This cozy club also owns the highly concentrated media. Worried about how the 2024 presidential election will affect your portfolio? The stakes are high for certain cultural issues. But when it comes to your money, I suggest you control your emotions. As one of my favorite rock groups, The Who, sang: “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” My point? When making investment decisions, ignore the yabbering of the political press and stick to the underlying fundamentals and technical indicators. [Read More...](   [Still think buy and hold is best? Bad news...]( If you’re nowhere near the place you want to be with your retirement savings right now and worried about what the future has in store… [you owe it to yourself to give me just 10 minutes of your time today…]( Do that and you’ll discover the jaw-dropping details we’ve uncovered about the next generation of investing. [And how even a small stake in these 5 ‘off the radar’ opportunities could hand you up to $500,000 in the next 12 months.]( You are receiving this email at {EMAIL} as part of your subscription to StreetAuthority. To ensure that you receive these emails, [please add us to your address book.]( [Terms]( |  [Privacy]( |  [Unsubscribe]( ©2024 StreetAuthority 20 Pidgeon Hill Drive, Suite 202, Sterling, VA 20165 All rights reserved. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution, in whole or in part, is prohibited.